American Rachel Teresa Riggio Fights with Khmer Woman
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Knightboat, I think some part of teh newsworthiness is that 440 and Kampot are in an uncomfortable relationship, given the Kampot Klux Klan's censorship mafia.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
It wasn't deleted by me. I had nothing to do with 440 management at the time. Take it up with the former owner.KnightBoat wrote:The incident with the sandwichmaker and the prostitute was recent news on Cambodian news websites at the time that thread was posted here and that post was also deleted and unable to be re-posted because it was also not newsworthy. If I remember correctly, there seemed to be some balancing of the potential crime committed versus the embarrassment the sandwichmaker would suffer from the thread.
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You are really good at deflecting.scobienz wrote:It wasn't deleted by me. I had nothing to do with 440 management at the time. Take it up with the former owner.KnightBoat wrote:The incident with the sandwichmaker and the prostitute was recent news on Cambodian news websites at the time that thread was posted here and that post was also deleted and unable to be re-posted because it was also not newsworthy. If I remember correctly, there seemed to be some balancing of the potential crime committed versus the embarrassment the sandwichmaker would suffer from the thread.
You said going forward after your buying this website that the standard was 'newsworthiness'. That was you, not the former owner. I raised the issue of whether this thread or similar threads were newsworthy or just needlessly cruel. You said that you had no idea whether it was newsworthy or not.
Why don't you know if it is newsworthy or not when that is the standard you said you would apply to threads like this?
vladimir wrote:Knightboat, I think some part of teh newsworthiness is that 440 and Kampot are in an uncomfortable relationship, given the Kampot Klux Klan's censorship mafia.
I'm not sure I agree. The thread exists because a poster deemed it interesting, and dozens of other posts clearly agreed given the responses to it. I can't say I paid much attention to it. I suspect it would have been a popular thread if it was based in SR, or PNH, or SHV also.
Nobody has issued a report complaining about it. Nobody has emailed me pleading with me to take it down. Contrary to popular perception, I don't spend every minute of every day scouring the forum and making weighty moral decisions about the appropriateness of every single post and its possible impact on every reader and non-reader. Ain't got no time for that shit. Nor do I have the time or energy to ensure every mod decision taken (and more importantly, NOT taken) is 100% consistent to a level that would satisfy the highest standards of the fucking Press Association. This is K440, not the New York Times.
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Even barang newspapers publish stories that one could argue are 'non-stories'.
Stories in today's New York Post include:
Seth Rogen Impressed with Orlando Bloom's Penis
This Former Fatty Stopped Eating Like a Slob and Lost a Ton of Weight
Are Selena Gomez's Sweatpants Really Worth $600?
Stories in today's New York Post include:
Seth Rogen Impressed with Orlando Bloom's Penis
This Former Fatty Stopped Eating Like a Slob and Lost a Ton of Weight
Are Selena Gomez's Sweatpants Really Worth $600?
I guess this means Knightboat won't be supporting your nomination for a Pulitzer this year, PN.
Bit off topic, but whatever:
Biggest story of the past fortnight in Cambodian newspapers (and Facebook) has been about a Japanese traveller who has been cycling around the region happily for a few months. During his first few days in Cambodia, having just cycled across the border from Thailand I think, and during his first day in Phnom Penh he had his bike "stolen". Newspaper front pages report the humiliating news: "First day in Cambodia after cycling across many countries Japanese man has his bike stolen!" Facebook users and police spread the word and low and behold his bike is discovered by the competent authorities chained up somewhere. More front page news as the whereabouts of the Japanese man has carelessly been unrecorded. He's found: more front-page articles of the handover. Then more front-page articles of local cyclists giving him a tour of Phnom Penh. Then he meets Khieu Kanharith in his offices = front page news. Khieu Kanharith orders all provincial governor's to welcome and house the guy, more front-page news of Cambodian hospitality.
Today, perhaps the 5th front page if not 6th, is the headline
<<Japanese Man Who Lost His Bike>> Has Left Cambodia for Vietnam.
Biggest story of the past fortnight in Cambodian newspapers (and Facebook) has been about a Japanese traveller who has been cycling around the region happily for a few months. During his first few days in Cambodia, having just cycled across the border from Thailand I think, and during his first day in Phnom Penh he had his bike "stolen". Newspaper front pages report the humiliating news: "First day in Cambodia after cycling across many countries Japanese man has his bike stolen!" Facebook users and police spread the word and low and behold his bike is discovered by the competent authorities chained up somewhere. More front page news as the whereabouts of the Japanese man has carelessly been unrecorded. He's found: more front-page articles of the handover. Then more front-page articles of local cyclists giving him a tour of Phnom Penh. Then he meets Khieu Kanharith in his offices = front page news. Khieu Kanharith orders all provincial governor's to welcome and house the guy, more front-page news of Cambodian hospitality.
Today, perhaps the 5th front page if not 6th, is the headline
<<Japanese Man Who Lost His Bike>> Has Left Cambodia for Vietnam.
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I'd agree with you to some extent, but it's not often we get to hear about chick-fights in Kampot. In fact we don't get to hear much about that place at all. Apparently what happens in Kampot stays in Kampot.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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I agree, especially since an internet persona was banned for "outing" another internet persona that 95% of readers don't know and will probably never know. It's quite kafkaesque.KnightBoat wrote: As I said before, I don't see the point of this thread. It just seems cruel and not newsworthy, especially with the bikini photos and slut fight comments added on. It is quite the punishment for someone that is alleged to have bumped into another person on a dance floor in a guesthouse in Kampot.
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